What drives weight gain, what obesity does to the body, and the diets, fasting plans and medications, GLP-1s among them, that help.
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The key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight isn't about short-term dietary changes. It's about a lifestyle that includes healthy eating, regular physical activity, and balancing the number of calories you consume with the number of calories your body uses. Find out how to get to your ideal weight and maintain it.
Healthy weight loss starts with a healthy diet. Healthy eating features a variety of healthy foods. Fad diets may promise fast results, but such diets limit your nutritional intake, can be unhealthy, and tend to fail in the long run. Managing your weight contributes to good health now and as you age. Learn how to lose weight the healthy way.
Weight loss and keeping a healthy weight depend on eating and activity and, for some people, on medicine or surgery. Topics include tips for successful weight loss, GLP-1s and other weight management medications, weight loss surgery, weight loss after pregnancy and supplements sold for weight loss.
Healthy Weight 
GLP-1s 
Body Weight 
Weight Control 
Tips for Successful Weight Loss 
Weight Loss and Women 
Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss 
Weight Management Medications 
Weight Loss After Pregnancy 
Weight Loss Surgery 
Overweight and Obesity 
Birth Weight 
Wellness and the Consequences of Weight Gain 
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight Weight loss medications help some people with obesity lose weight and keep it off, alongside changes in diet and activity. Topics include GLP-1s and other weight management drugs, diabetes medicines, supplements sold for weight loss and a summary of weight management drugs for clinicians.
Diets are eating plans followed for health, for weight or for a medical condition. They range from the Mediterranean, keto and vegan diets to fasting and elimination diets, along with diets for diabetes, kidney disease and high cholesterol.
Diets 
Mediterranean Diet 
Vegetarian Diet 
Ketogenic Diet 
Calorie Restriction and Fasting Diets 
Gluten-Free Diet 
Vegan Diet 
Detox Diets and Cleanses Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight 
To Fast or Not to Fast 
Diet and Cancer Risk 
Diabetes Diet, Eating, & Physical Activity 
Elimination Diet 
Cirrhosis Diet 
MIND Diet 
Low-Cholesterol Diet 
Nutrition for Adults with CKD 
Kidney Diet 
Anti-Inflammatory Diet 
Diabetic Diet A diabetic diet balances carbohydrates, fats and proteins to keep blood glucose steady, and many eating patterns fit it. They range from the Mediterranean, vegetarian, vegan and ketogenic diets to intermittent fasting and calorie restriction, also used for weight loss, along with eating for kidney disease and dialysis.
Fasting means going without food, or most food, for set periods, a practice used for weight loss and studied for its effects on health. Topics include intermittent fasting and calorie restriction and other fasting diets, along with the case for and against fasting.
Body fat, or adipose tissue, stores energy and releases hormones, and obesity is an excess of it that harms health. Topics include visceral fat, being thin outside but fat inside, lipids and lipid metabolism, dietary fats, obesogens and preventing childhood obesity.
Obesity raises the risk of many chronic conditions, in adults and in children. Linked conditions include type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, fatty liver disease, sleep apnea and osteoarthritis, along with a higher risk of some cancers.
Wellness and the Consequences of Weight Gain 
Obesity and Cancer Risk 
Metabolic Syndrome 
Osteoarthritis 
Low Back Pain 
Infertility 
Gout 
Gallbladder Diseases 
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 
Liver Diseases 
Asthma 
Dementia 
High Blood Pressure 
High Blood Cholesterol 
High Blood Triglycerides 
Type 2 Diabetes 
Coronary Heart Disease 
Stroke 
Sleep Apnea 
Obstructive Sleep Apnea 
Depression 
Hypothalamic Obesity 
Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome 
Female Infertility 
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children 
Fatty Liver Disease 
Obesity in Children Obesity in Women Overweight and Obesity 
Obesity in Pets 
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome 
Inflammation Eating disorders are serious illnesses marked by severe disturbances in eating and in related thoughts and emotions. Topics include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and pica, binge eating in women and a summary of eating disorders written for health professionals.
Childhood obesity is a weight well above what's healthy for a child's height and age, and it can bring health problems that last into adulthood. Topics range from causes such as obesogens, hypothalamic obesity and leptin receptor deficiency to fatty liver disease in children, along with prevention.
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